Billie Jean King Quotes

American - Athlete Born: November 22, 1943

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. Billie Jean King

Play, Feels, Sports

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King

Sports, Champions, Keep

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. - Billie Jean King

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King

Success, Everyone Else

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. Billie Jean King

Sports, Atmosphere, Violent

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Billie Jean King

Think, The Most Important

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences. Billie Jean King

Need, Celebrate, Differences

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. Billie Jean King

Ball, Hit, Going

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. Billie Jean King

Woman, Could, Father

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. Billie Jean King

Lives, May, Everyone

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. Billie Jean King

Seventies, Okay, Acceptable

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. Billie Jean King

Knew, Old, Allowed

I wanted to use sports for social change. Billie Jean King

Wanted, Sports, Social

Sports are a microcosm of society. Billie Jean King

Sports, Microcosm, Society

When I was outed, it was like, That's done. Billie Jean King

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. Billie Jean King

United States, Still, Sports

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. Billie Jean King

Very, Game, Main Thing

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis. Billie Jean King

United States, Still, United

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. Billie Jean King

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men. Billie Jean King

Very, Still, Strong

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually. Billie Jean King

Think, Cares, I Think

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. Billie Jean King

World, Obsessed, Changes

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. Billie Jean King

Thought, Got, Life

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it. Billie Jean King

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Billie Jean King

Very, Leader, Side

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. Billie Jean King

First Time, Very, Fall

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. Billie Jean King

Means, Will, Ready

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